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I agree. My son has been in a wheelchair for 19 years now. (He is 32) He would definitely like to be able to get up on his own two feet in the morning instead of being lifted out and placed in a chair.

I am very thankful that I have two feet and I'm able to stand under my own power.

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This is so true what your are saying and what a good example for your child! This is also what I started to apply in my life since I'm on SP. If I want something, I do it myself. No one will do it for me.

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

As a social worker working in a hospital, I'm amazed at how many people expect others to fix their issues (outside of just their health). Since the day I made the decision to throw out on my abusive first husband, I have chosen to take responsibility; knowing that no one but me was going to make my life better. I raised a daughter on my own, went back to school full time while I worked part time and took student loans to help make ends meet. It was tight but we managed and later when I got my first full time job in the field of my choice, I knew I had made the right choice and that it was me who got me here. Went on to get my master's degree part time and now have a great career doing what I love.

I remember my family doctor back then... he used to tell me all the time how strong I was and would ask me all the time "how do you do it? How do you go to school, work, raise a child and not have a breakdown or give up". I told him then and I would tell him again... "Who else is going to do it for me? There is no one else but me. I may have familythat will help but what would happen if they were not there? No one will do it for me but me."

Being strong gets tiresome and there were days I'd much rather have given up, but raising a child didn't give me that option and to this day, I've never been able to see giving up as being an option. Because of that philosophy, at 51, I have a career I love, a wonderful daughter I'm incredibly close to, wonderful grandchildren I adore along with a lovely son in law, a house near the waterfront and a wonderful supportive husband.

No one else but me could have taken me here. The journey's been rough at times but life is good... and man, but the muscles I gained will see me through to the end....

May life grant you the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Life is what you make it. You may not be able to control what life throws at you but you choose how you react. You only live once .. make it count.

Wonderful quote; "Life isn't meant to be easy, it's meant to be lived". Sometimes when life gets challenging, I have to remind myself no one ever promised life would be easy but always I'm grateful to be here, even if it's to complain because I know at those moments, life can only get better. AS for the wonderful moments, those are moments of gratitude, happy moments to be relived when I get old!

Thanks for the reminder!

Ush

May life grant you the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Life is what you make it. You may not be able to control what life throws at you but you choose how you react. You only live once .. make it count.

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.”

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - Unknown

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. -Earl Nightingale

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